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September 15th, 2026
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by Joseph C. Ogbonna
My anguish stems from yesterday!
A yesterday I partly created, and a yesterday that overwhelmed my own full responsibility.
It resonates very deeply today in the form of past mistakes, strained relationships, gambled stakes, painful breakups, and painful exits.
I am clinically saddened, to say the very least! With tearful drops flowing from my teary eyes.
The world around me cares and knows less.
It is severed from life's vicissitudes, a severence that makes it empathize far less commensuratetly.
Inwardly, I am seething at a world that knows and cares less, as I die daily in silence.
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Joseph C. Ogbonna resides in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.
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This poem is also featured in Poetry World #16, published in the Wax Poetry and Art Library.
Keywords: depression, melancholy, anguish
Previously published in Africa Poetry Magazine:
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